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Tweet Automatic Twitter Submissions

$15.00

Tweet Automatic Twitter Submissions

$15.00

The Tweet module is the easiest way to publish content to your website's official Twitter account. Using Twitter's API service, the Tweet module will post content from your site on to your Twitter page automatically.

Product Description

The Tweet module is the easiest way to publish content to your website’s official Twitter account. Using Twitter’s API service, the Tweet module will post content from your site on to your Twitter page automatically.

Features

Automatically submit a story title and link to your Twitter account.

Tweet each new submission, or just published submissions.

Specify which user accounts should be Tweeted, so that only trusted users are able to publish content to your Twitter page.

Please note that this module will currently only submit tweets for stories that have received enough votes to go published. Using an admin tool to manually publish a submission will not result in it being published to Twitter.

Notes

This module requires a Twitter account with API credentials, which can be set up for free.. Continue reading for Twitter and Bit.ly API installation instructions.

Twitter API Settings

Below are screenshots demonstrating the create new Twitter API page. Make sure that you enter the callback URL provided on the Tweet module settings page.

After creating a Twitter API, you will need to navigate to the “Settings” tab and change the “Access” permissions to “Read & Write”.

Bit.ly Settings

For the Bit.ly API, you will need to visit the Bit.ly settings page and click on the “Advanced” tab. Next click on the “Show Legacy API key” link to display your API credentials. Copy over both the Login and API Key field values into the Tweet module’s settings page.